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"The difference between facilities is huge, this is what we need to reform," Mr Widodo said.

According to the latest data from the World Bank, Indonesia has given more than 100 million doses of vaccines in the country, with almost 30% of the population fully vaccinated - no easy feat in a huge archipelago.īut while urban areas like Jakarta are now seeing high levels of vaccination rates, rural areas are harder to get to.

The vaccination drive has also picked up. The COVID situation has improved since then, with both deaths and case numbers falling, according to government data. "Our hospitals, our facilities were full and could not handle the load," he said, "and that led to a lot of deaths." In the interview, he acknowledged the mistakes his administration made in managing the pandemic, saying that it was down to the lack of healthcare infrastructure in the country. His former health minister Terawan Agus Putranto famously said the country would be spared from the virus, because of "all the prayers." The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said that the country was "teetering on the edge of a Covid-19 catastrophe".īut Mr Widodo's administration initially downplayed the disease. The sick were turned away from overflowing hospitals and funeral grounds ran out of space for the dead. People died in their homes, gasping for breath as oxygen supplies ran out across the archipelago.